The official BeagleBone Black Getting Started guide isn’t very helpful in connecting the wireless version of the BeagleBone Black (BBBW) to a wireless network. This is what worked for me. 1. Connect the BBBW to a computer via USB and install the USB wireless drivers, as mentioned in Step 2 of the Getting Started guide….

After many years as a professional software developer, I finally felt the urge to pursue one of the many certifications out there. Since I really like using MongoDB lately, and I aced all the MongoDB University online courses I’ve taken, it made sense to take the Certified Developer exam.

Changing the primary domain name on a Google Apps account is a non-trivial process. I recently needed to do this for a customer, and created a console application that makes the job easier. This works on OS X and Linux; Windows support is unknown (and will not be tested by me). It’s written in Go,…

Sites that sell lossless usually offer only FLAC files. To convert to ALAC for iTunes and iDevices using ffmpeg: for f in `ls *.flac`; do ffmpeg -i $f -c alac ${f/flac/m4a}; done This assumes the current directory is the directory containing the FLAC files. Explanation: For all .flac files Call ffmpeg with the original file…